1822 - Edocs

Judg-es salary 15. Be it further enacted, That the Judges aforesaid,
$1200. shall receive for their salary, twelve hundred dollars, to >e
paid quarterly, out of the Treasury of the Territory upon
a warrant from the Governor.
J. C. BRONAUGH,
President of the Legislative Council.
[Approved 12th Entrust 1822.]
\V\i. P. DUVAL,
Real Estate, of intestates
to descend
in parcenary.
To his children.
To his father.
To his mother.
Divided into two
moieties.
To the grandfather
To the Grand mother.
To the Greatgrand-father.
To the GreatgTand-motuer.
To the nearest lineai
ancestors.
No inheritance Sec.
"VTp n but o.ic kindi
.'. tiiev shall mhc
L.
It L'ndred, to
the wife &c.»
TEST, '
Governor of the Territory of Florida.
JOHN COPPTNGER CONNOR,
Clerk of the Legislative Council.
AN ACT
Regulating- Descents.
Be it enacted by the Governor and Legislative Coun-
cil, of the Territory of Florida, That, whenever any person
having title to real estate of inheritance, shall depart
this life, intestate, -such estate shall descend in parcenary
to the male and female kindred, in the following course,
that is to say:
- 1. To his children or their descendants, if any there be.
2. If there be no children nor their descendants, then to
the father.
3. If'there be no father* then to his mother, brothers and
sisters, and their descendants;.
4. If there be none of the last mentioned kindred, the
inheritance snail be divided into two moieties^ one of
which shall go to the paternal and the other to the maternal
kindred, in the following course, viz:
5. First to the grand father.
6. If there be no grand father, then to the grand mother,
uncles and aunts on the same side, and their descendants
or such of them as there be.
7. If tnere be no grand mother, uncle nor aunt, nor their
descendants ,then to the great grand fathers, or great grand
father if there be but one.
S. If there be no great grand father, then to the great
grand mothers, or great grand mother, if there be hut
one, and the brothers and sisters of the grand fathers and
grand mothers, and their d scendahts, if any there be.
9. And %> in other cases without end, passing to the
nearest linesfl male ancestors, and for the want ofthem to
the lineal female ancestors, in the same degree, and the
descendants of such male and female lineal ancestors.
10. But no ri.^ht of inheritance shall accrue to any person
not in existence, except the intestate's children.
t 1. In the Cc-.se in which the estate is directed to be di-
vide i into two moieties, if there be but one kindred then
they sha!? inherit and vice versa, if there be no kindred,
the wnoie shall go to the wife or husband of the intestate.